#intent

Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#i #intention #need #planning #retire

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #contract #destroyed #either #eventually

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#events #institute #intention #led #massachusetts

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter. ↗

— Bille August

#best #best intentions #bits #certain #complete

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#concentrate #ear #else #get #hear

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything. ↗

— Sean Bean

#any #anything #being #capable #good

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #intention #mean #out #practice

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #hasn #intention #man #means

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americana #called #culture #declaration #first